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Philip Watson (pwatson@lincoln.gpsemi.com) wrote:
: Posted on behalf of Alan Benson.
: 
: Start...
: 
: Hello netters,
: 
: My local school is in the process of setting up a school-wide network, and
: wants to incorporate thier PC's (currently with the secretarial staff) and
: Arc's in one network.
: 
: At the moment they are looking at cabling up the whole school, so
: decisions
: need to be made about the 'flavour' of cable to use.
: 

  Thick ethernet backbone with thin ethernet spurs if they can afford it.

: Now I'm quite familiar with PC networking, but know nothing about Arc's
: (except my friends keep wittering on about how superb they are!!! (OK I'll
: probably have to conceed that!))
: 
: Some of the questions which spring to mind are:
: 
: 1) Is a mixed Econet/Ethernet feasable?

  Yes if the ethernet is connected to an Acorn level 4 server running AUN

: 
: 2)	What networking software exists for the Arc and how well does it
:      co-exists with other flavours.

  Econet, AUN Ethernet, Classnet Ethernet - all compatible
 also TCP/IP (mainly for where an NFS system is in place) The Acorn level 4
file server can cope with all of these.

: 
: 3)	What are the 'common' pitfalls with Acorn networking.

  not being able to connect it to PC networks :-)

  Econet is right out. It is WAY too slow for archimedes machines

: 
: 4)	Can you remote mount other disks across the network Al'La NFS.

  not sure what you mean here surely this is what an Acorn server would provide


  Are the PCs using Novell?



  From what I have discovered in the course of setting up a similar(ish)
system for a school, what you want will depend on the relative sizes of
the two networks, lengths of coble involved etc.
  The best solution I can think of off hand is to run a thick (10base5)
Ethernet across the entire school and bridge in thin (10base2) ethernet spurs
wherever there are machines.
  The archimedes machines cannot access a novell server (or any other PC type
server I know of) and the PCs cannot access a level 4 server however, I
believe that the two protocols CAN co-exist on the same cable without problems
(someone confirm this?)

  If you want to mail me with more specific details of the arrangement then
I'll be glad to provide whatever help I can.

  Mik


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